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There's potential for a funny 'man out of time' shooter with Duke Nukem but the first step towards that is conceding that he's not a relevant character anymore. I fear that would be the stumbling block.

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I'm all for a new badass shooter that's a throwback to the old style. But for me Duke the character needs an overhaul. He's an old guy still stuck spouting juvenile lines, while his fanbase has outgrown that.

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This was talked about previously as Gearbox got into a beef with one of the modders whose work was in the megaton edition. They wanted to re-negotiate his royalties and he basically told them to get bent, so Gearbox pulled the game and is replacing his work.

That's a rough cover of why it was pulled.

Moving on......Let's hope they allow or release themselves the Duke Nukem 3D-Reloaded game. It was basically made by the people who now own a majority state of 3drealms(I love that the company is still around).

Duke Nukem 3D: Reloaded was basically a HD remake of Duke Nukem 3D but with added levels and some new stuff mixed in with the classic levels and bosses and at the time was using Unreal Engine 3. The screenshots still look great and those that saw the game in motion were apparently blown away.

The story/lore goes that Gearbox loved it more than Duke Nukem Forever but with the obvious big investment they put into the IP to get DNF finished, told the fan project basically "yeah, you can develop and finish the game but we get ultimate say whether you can actually release the game" and well...Gearbox told them no. It's been sitting somewhere, pretty much a full game ready to go.

I miss Duke. My only complaints with DNF was that it was almost too sexual. Dial that back. Give us the Duke who loves and saves our chicks and kicks in alien scumbag's heads and I'm happy.

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I think Duke himself has the potential to be a PERFECT video game character for 2016. The ultimate satire of the meat headed straight white guy. It would just take some good writing to pull it off, and I don't think Gearbox have those kind of chops.

My candidates for a Duke Nukem game should Gearbox farm out the I.P.(which is rumored to have taken place with a new game in development somewhere)

My picks would be People Can Fly(Bulletstorm aka Duke Nukem with a hangover), MachineGames-(Wolfenstein the New Order) or Flying Wild Hog-Reboot of Shadow Warrior and soon to be released amazing looking Shadow Warrior 2)

This was talked about previously as Gearbox got into a beef with one of the modders whose work was in the megaton edition. They wanted to re-negotiate his royalties and he basically told them to get bent, so Gearbox pulled the game and is replacing his work.

It was Richard "Terminx" Gobeille, who is responsible for creating the EDuke32 port. He was also getting royalties for his work on the Megaton Edition port. Gearbox brought him on their project because he understood the Build Engine and Duke Nukem 3D source code better than they ever could. But they went and cut ties with him, pushing him out of the project. The guy used the royalties that he made from Megaton Edition to deal with his medical bills because he suffers from Lupus, he also used it to support his wife and kid.

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I'm trying to figure out where Duke's character went wrong. Who thought that he should just spurt out memes and pop culture references.

I mean, yes his original quotes were part of pop culture in a way, but he didn't say them just to say them. Stuff like "blow it out your ass" and "Eat shit and die" make more sense than him running around saying "Pork chop sandwiches", "got milk?" and "Bazinga"

That would be like Duke originally saying shit like "Not the momma!" Or "How ruuuude". It wouldn't make any fucking sense to the context of what is happening in the game.

They really need to revamp him. This meme spouting bullshit needs to stop.

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This was talked about previously as Gearbox got into a beef with one of the modders whose work was in the megaton edition. They wanted to re-negotiate his royalties and he basically told them to get bent, so Gearbox pulled the game and is replacing his work.

That's a rough cover of why it was pulled.

Moving on......Let's hope they allow or release themselves the Duke Nukem 3D-Reloaded game. It was basically made by the people who now own a majority state of 3drealms(I love that the company is still around).

[B][B][U]Duke Nukem 3D: Reloaded was basically a[B] HD remake [/B]of Duke Nukem 3D but with added levels and some new stuff mixed in with the classic levels and bosses and at the time was using Unreal Engine 3[/U][/B][/B]. The screenshots still look great and those that saw the game in motion were apparently blown away.

The story/lore goes that Gearbox loved it more than Duke Nukem Forever but with the obvious big investment they put into the IP to get DNF finished, told the fan project basically "yeah, you can develop and finish the game but we get ultimate say whether you can actually release the game" and well...Gearbox told them no. It's been sitting somewhere, pretty much a full game ready to go.

I miss Duke. My only complaints with DNF was that it was almost too sexual. Dial that back. Give us the Duke who loves and saves our chicks and kicks in alien scumbag's heads and I'm happy.

As hands down, the biggest Duke Nukem fan ever, I can say that I'm extremely happy with the direction they appear to be going.

Making a new episode for a 20 year old game isn't going to make anyone that isn't interested suddenly go out and buy it, but for the people like me that still play Duke 3d every single day it means more than I can put into words.

I was going to pick up a single copy of the newest re-release whenever it comes out back when I thought it was just going to be the return of the Megaton Edition, but after hearing about the new content I'm going to pick up a copy for every person on my Steam friends list so it's looking more like 40+ copies but idgaf considering this is literally a dream come true. If you were to ask me what I want out of gaming more than anything else, I'd tell you more content for Duke 3d so I'm as happy about this as anyone possibly can be If it's not clear enough how much I love this franchise, I would be willing to give up VR for the rest of my life if I had to choose between new VR content and new Duke 3d content. Duke 3d means to me what Dino Crisis means to Jawmuncher

He touched the black heart of a mod

As hands down, the biggest Duke Nukem fan ever, I can say that I'm extremely happy with the direction they appear to be going.

Making a new episode for a 20 year old game isn't going to make anyone that isn't interested suddenly go out and buy it, but for the people like me that still play Duke 3d every single day it means more than I can put into words.

I was going to pick up a single copy of the newest re-release whenever it comes out back when I thought it was just going to be the return of the Megaton Edition, but after hearing about the new content I'm going to pick up a copy for every person on my Steam friends list so it's looking more like 40+ copies but idgaf considering this is literally a dream come true. If you were to ask me what I want out of gaming more than anything else, I'd tell you more content for Duke 3d so I'm as happy about this as anyone possibly can be If it's not clear enough how much I love this franchise, I would be willing to give up VR for the rest of my life if I had to choose between new VR content and new Duke 3d content. Duke 3d means to me what Dino Crisis means to Jawmuncher

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This was talked about previously as Gearbox got into a beef with one of the modders whose work was in the megaton edition. They wanted to re-negotiate his royalties and he basically told them to get bent, so Gearbox pulled the game and is replacing his work.

That's a rough cover of why it was pulled.

Moving on......Let's hope they allow or release themselves the Duke Nukem 3D-Reloaded game. It was basically made by the people who now own a majority state of 3drealms(I love that the company is still around).

Duke Nukem 3D: Reloaded was basically a HD remake of Duke Nukem 3D but with added levels and some new stuff mixed in with the classic levels and bosses and at the time was using Unreal Engine 3. The screenshots still look great and those that saw the game in motion were apparently blown away.

The story/lore goes that Gearbox loved it more than Duke Nukem Forever but with the obvious big investment they put into the IP to get DNF finished, told the fan project basically "yeah, you can develop and finish the game but we get ultimate say whether you can actually release the game" and well...Gearbox told them no. It's been sitting somewhere, pretty much a full game ready to go.

I miss Duke. My only complaints with DNF was that it was almost too sexual. Dial that back. Give us the Duke who loves and saves our chicks and kicks in alien scumbag's heads and I'm happy.

I feel like John Romero started this trend when he began making new levels for the original Doom. Then a few months ago for Quakes 20th anniversary, Machine Games made a whole new episode for the original Quake, which was totally awesome. The new 3D Realms is also making a brand new Bombshell prequel that is using the original Build Engine... or at least a modified version of it. Now Gearbox is pulling out some of the old Duke 3D level designers and Lee Jackson, for a new Duke Nukem 3D episode.

I really want to see Blood get a engine overhaul next. Atari really needs to make this happen with Jace Hall.

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This was talked about previously as Gearbox got into a beef with one of the modders whose work was in the megaton edition. They wanted to re-negotiate his royalties and he basically told them to get bent, so Gearbox pulled the game and is replacing his work.

That's a rough cover of why it was pulled.

Moving on......Let's hope they allow or release themselves the Duke Nukem 3D-Reloaded game. It was basically made by the people who now own a majority state of 3drealms(I love that the company is still around).

Duke Nukem 3D: Reloaded was basically a HD remake of Duke Nukem 3D but with added levels and some new stuff mixed in with the classic levels and bosses and at the time was using Unreal Engine 3. The screenshots still look great and those that saw the game in motion were apparently blown away.

The story/lore goes that Gearbox loved it more than Duke Nukem Forever but with the obvious big investment they put into the IP to get DNF finished, told the fan project basically "yeah, you can develop and finish the game but we get ultimate say whether you can actually release the game" and well...Gearbox told them no. It's been sitting somewhere, pretty much a full game ready to go.

I miss Duke. My only complaints with DNF was that it was almost too sexual. Dial that back. Give us the Duke who loves and saves our chicks and kicks in alien scumbag's heads and I'm happy.

Definitely will get whatever they put out, but I'm secretly hoping for some, *any* news on where they plan to take the IP next. No doubt they didn't acquire it just for DNF and D3D, but maybe this release will indicate to them, depending on its success, who still cares about the property.

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Definitely will get whatever they put out, but I'm secretly hoping for some, *any* news on where they plan to take the IP next. No doubt they didn't acquire it just for DNF and D3D, but maybe this release will indicate to them, depending on its success, who still cares about the property.

Definitely will get whatever they put out, but I'm secretly hoping for some, *any* news on where they plan to take the IP next. No doubt they didn't acquire it just for DNF and D3D, but maybe this release will indicate to them, depending on its success, who still cares about the property.

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If there is any series I would love to work on it would be Duke. So much room for little giggles.

On the options screen.
Goes to click Microtransaction, Duke speaks one of many lines.
"Don't let the game play you."
"Too easy"
"You already lost."
"Save your money for the new Episode."
"Are you really disappointed?"
"Just through your wallet down a storm drain instead."

Forever was shit but that was under a very different system then a new game would come from. So long as the explore-loop-expand-explore more map design comes back it will be worth it.

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If there is any series I would love to work on it would be Duke. So much room for little giggles.

On the options screen.
Goes to click Microtransaction, Duke speaks one of many lines.
"Don't let the game play you."
"Too easy"
"You already lost."
"Save your money for the new Episode."
"Are you really disappointed?"
"Just through your wallet down a storm drain instead."

Forever was shit but that was under a very different system then a new game would come from. So long as the explore-loop-expand-explore more map design comes back it will be worth it.

True, but it won't be a AAA-game, because that would involve focus groups and so on. I'm all in for a new cheap old-school Duke 3D type game. I even take the same graphics, just make huge new levels with fun interactions and like you said: making fun of modern games and culture in general.
Release this on all platforms for a cheap price and it would probably sell a million on Steam alone, seeing what games like Postal is selling.